Outpatient-Guiding System

Abstract

An outpatient-guiding system includes a patient-data recording module recoding a patient's face-image data, appointment time and appointed department; video cameras installed in a hospital; an image-capturing module using the video cameras to capture the patient's face images and location information; an image-recognizing module comparing the patient's face images to the recorded data so as to determine the patient's identity; a path-planning module, according to the patient's identity and the location information of the video cameras, calculating the patient's present location and planning a proceeding path toward the appointed department; view-displaying modules, according to the patient's present location and proceeding path, displaying outpatient-guiding information; and at least two voice-broadcasting modules, according to the patient's present location and proceeding path, broadcasting outpatient-guiding information. Thereby, the system guides the patient to the department/clinic room for his/her appointment accurately and promptly.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An outpatient-guiding system, comprising:
 a patient-data recording module, a plurality of video cameras, an image-capturing module, an image-recognizing module, a path-planning module, a plurality of view-displaying modules and a plurality of voice-broadcasting modules;   the patient-data recording module recording anamnesis data, face-image data, and appointment details of a patient, and using the appointment details to obtain an appointment time and an appointed department related to the patient and a hospital;   the video cameras being installed in passageways and corridors of the hospital;   the image-capturing module using the video cameras to capture face images of the patient and location information of the video cameras; the image-recognizing module comparing the patient's face images input by the image-capturing module to the face-image data stored in the patient-data recording module for apparent features, so as to determine the patient's identity;   the path-planning module, according to the patient's identity determined by the image-recognizing module and according to the location information of the video cameras, calculating the patient's present location and planning a proceeding path toward the appointed department;   the view-displaying modules being deployed along the hospital's passageways and corridors, and, according to the patient's present location and proceeding path planned by the path-planning module, displaying outpatient-guiding information through the view-displaying module locationally closest to the patient;   the plurality of voice-broadcasting modules being deployed along the hospital's passageways and corridors, and, according to the patient's present location and proceeding path planned by the path-planning module, broadcasting outpatient-guiding information using the voice-broadcasting module locationally closest to the patient.   
     
     
         2 . The outpatient-guiding system of  claim 1 , wherein after the image-recognizing module determines the patient's identity, the image-capturing module captures body feature images of the patient and then captures body feature images of all individuals presenting in vision scope of the video cameras for a predetermined time period, after which the image-recognizing module identifies those body feature images that match the body feature images of the patient, and for individuals having those body feature images that match the body feature images of the patient, the image-capturing module captures face images thereof and records these face images into the patient-data recording module. 
     
     
         3 . The outpatient-guiding system of  claim 1 , further comprising a list-screening module. 
     
     
         4 . The outpatient-guiding system of  claim 3 , wherein the list-screening module contains a blacklist prepared by the hospital or a blocked-person list provided by a public security authority.